[OE-core] [PATCH] util-linux: Use PCRE for hardlink

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:00 PM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 11:32 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Use PCRE, this enables using posix extended Regexps on cmdline
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
> > b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
> > index 1fa82363b1..8f867aa9b4 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "
> > file://README.licensing;md5=972a134f1e14b2b060e365df2fab0099
> >
> >  #gtk-doc is not enabled as it requires xmlto which requires util-
> > linux
> >  inherit autotools gettext manpages pkgconfig systemd update-
> > alternatives python3-dir bash-completion ptest
> > -DEPENDS = "libcap-ng ncurses virtual/crypt zlib"
> > +DEPENDS = "libcap-ng ncurses virtual/crypt zlib libpcre2"
> >
> >  MAJOR_VERSION = "${@'.'.join(d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0:2])}"
> >  SRC_URI =
> > "${KERNELORG_MIRROR}/linux/utils/${BPN}/v${MAJOR_VERSION}/${BP}.tar.x
> > z \
>
> Given it works today without that, shouldn't it be a PACKAGECONFIG?

its default with other main linux distros. I thought since what we
were doing was not
default, I did not see a need for packageconfig. I can certain do a v2
with packageconfig
and enabling it by default, is that better ?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>